06-14-2008, 07:32 PM | #1 |
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My first crash
...on my new bike, that is (the one I bought last fall). I was cruising down the canyon trail after biking to the top of South Fork and I came up on a group of longboarders. As is often the case, they were bunched up and hogging the trail. I slowed down and yelled "coming on your left". Some dumbass girl panicked and jumped off her board sending it right over in front of my tire and down I went. I wasn't going very fast, so I just ended up with some road rash on my elbow and a bruised hip. But my bike is all scraped up on the right side. I guess it's broken in now.
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06-14-2008, 09:40 PM | #2 |
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SO what happened? Are you a belligerent victim or were you calm? I usually loose my cool when something like that happens and lay into them. WHat did you do?
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06-14-2008, 09:52 PM | #3 |
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That is because you have a pretty big ego.
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Interestingly, I had plenty of energy for the rest of the ride home. Funny what a little adrenaline will do.
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06-15-2008, 12:52 AM | #5 |
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Contrary to the bumper stickers that I used to see during the 90s, I believe skateboarding is a crime.
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06-15-2008, 02:54 AM | #6 |
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Glad you weren't going that fast. Sucks about the bike, though. Hopefully everything is just cosmetic.
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06-15-2008, 03:44 AM | #7 |
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Will little miss longboarder be paying for your bike repairs? I despise longboards.
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What the heck is the point of a longboard? You can only use them to go downhill and you can do nothing on them but carve back and forth. "Weee, I am cruising down the street wearing sandals and holding a big gulp!" Sector 9 is the worst thing to happen to the skate industry since Gorilla Ribs were invented. I wish longboards would go away. Or at least be cast down to rollerblade status, which is to say, completely laughable and embarrassing.
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Just a couple of weeks ago, a student was rolling down a street in the middle of the night, decided he was in too big of a hurry to stop at a red light, and ran into the side of a bus. He fell under, and the rear wheels went right over his head. I heard that the aftermath was not pretty, to say the least. An article I read about this tragedy said that he always rode while wearing sandals. I also read that he was quite a bright student. Really sad that this happened, but come on, did he think he was invincible? And how would you like to be the driver, probably fraught with guilt over this, even though she did nothing wrong (she didn't even know anything happened until police stopped her bus a few blocks later)? |
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